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> 5/4/2005
> -Posted by Russell Shaw @ 4:05 pm
> Connecticut is the latest state to sue Vonage for misrepresenting the
> way in which the service handles "911" calls.
> Seems to me that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal
> instructed his staff to obtain a copy of the Texas suit -- and after
> doing so, did some CPR (cut, paste, rewrite). Then, they drafted the > current suit.
> The Connecticut suit has less than no merit. No specific Vonage
> customer in Connecticut seems to have suffered the trying consequences
> of Vonage 911-connect failure like that customer in Houston may have.
> And what about the fact that Connecticut filed the suit just about on
> the eve of today's announcement that Vonage will work with Verizon
> (the main local telco in Connecticut) to enable E911 solutions? Maybe
> Blumenthal and his folks didn't bother to check. Or, maybe he and
> his staffers were concerned that 911 solution progress is slower
> between Vonage and SBC (which covers part of Connecticut) than it is
> between Vonage and Verizon.
Actually Connecticut is SBC, not Verizon. That might have something to do with it.